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iPod How bad is the Classic's performance?

I haven't used it since the update, but the UI seems terribly sluggish on the classic AND the nano. Not a good experience at all. It looks pretty, thats about it.
 
GTiPhone said:
I haven't used it since the update, but the UI seems terribly sluggish on the classic AND the nano. Not a good experience at all. It looks pretty, thats about it.
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yeah but apparently the update changes all that. So everything posted about this issue prior to the update is no longer terribly relevant...
 
the classic was too laggy for me. i returned it for a touch.

The interface that puts up album art, video stills and pictures during navigation causes a stall as the hard drive spins up. the click wheel is noticibly sticky. you have to give a lot of pressure. the most unacceptable part is the music will stutter when navigating the menus. it is awful in coverflow. the music basically stops as you scroll through albums.

I had a 5G and it was tolerable, even enjoyable in menus. The classic is not.

Remember what happened to the Mac Classic and the Classic OS. It's only a matter of time once apple names something "classic".
 
I dont see what everyone is complaining about. Ive been to 3 different apple stores here in CT and havent seen any of the problems as stated in here. I guess everyone is just trying to find something wrong w/ it.
 
Bosox3 said:
I dont see what everyone is complaining about. Ive been to 3 different apple stores here in CT and havent seen any of the problems as stated in here. I guess everyone is just trying to find something wrong w/ it.
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No, there was a software update that fixed these issues.

Please close this thread, thanks :).
 
Bern said:
Actually what you need to do is go to the album in question, highlight all the songs in that album, then drop the album artwork into the small square on the lower right hand side. Then each album will display the same cover for every song.

If you have a compilation album, then you can have different names for the category "Artist" but make sure you put "Various Artists" for every song under "Album Artist" for that album. Then check the box "Compilation - Yes"

For albums that are all the same artist make sure you have the same artist's name in both categories "Artist" and "Album Artist" then make sure the box "Compilation" is not checked and the drop down states "No".

Also for each album make sure you indicate for "Disc Number" if it is "1 of 1" or "1 of 2" or "2 of 2" etc

I spent the last few days doing all these and Coverflow works really well and accurately as a result.
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Wow. That hardly seems worth it. Even if it worked well I can't really see the use for coverflow.
 
I know first hand -- being an owner of a new silver 80 GB classic running the 1.01 firmware -- that there are no response problems.
 
Before update = pants performance, laggy, crashes, freezes on my 80GB Classic

Post Update = smooth as, no crashes.

Me = a lot happier with my purchase, but still losing faith in Apple's "Quality Control"....

Now to sort out my compilations so Cover Flow is actually useful...:rolleyes:
 
I just bought a 80 gig classic on Sunday and I have every song paired with extremely high quality album art and it doesn't lag at all when it uses that art. The only time it lags (ever so slightly I might add) is after I get done playing video. Overall VERY happy with my purchase.:)
P.S. this is with firmware 1.00.
 
I don't find my 80gb one bad. Sometimes switching back to the menu from the now playing screen it lags a bit. And cover flow takes a second to load the covers, but thats because it doesn't use flash memory. Same goes for the artwork in the menus, but its not as bad a people are making it out IMO.

I do however find it faster when skipping to the next track then my 5g one was. And if its paused and powers off, hitting the play button starts the song very very fast.

I'm pleased with mine...until they make a 32GB touch :D
 
Hm, after the update I actually have different problem: Now it's almost too fast when scrolling through a list :rolleyes:

Coverflow still sucks, although once it's loaded it seems fast enough. The whole CF + Wheel idea doesn't do anything for me.
 
no video out??

Have read you cn no longer vid-out from headphone jack to tv or docks..
Outrageous..
any news on weather a firmware fix is on the way?
This is the only thing stopping me getting an 80g Classic after my G5 60g I-pod Video was stolen last week in France(on honeymoon,no less!!!!!!)
 
My brother is returning his iPod Classic, and he'll be using my 40GB iPod Photo instead. Our experience with the 80GB Silver Classic is that it's absolutely horrible, and that none of the software "upgrades" are worth anything at all.

Apple came to the end of how much they could improve on the click wheel iPod, so instead of letting it stay as is, or moving onto something new, they spurt out this horribly slow, full of unnecessary features, operating system. You can only see four albums per screen now, instead of nine, because Apple thought it would be a brilliant idea to let you see the album artwork next to each album, even though it's so small you can barely see it, but it's big enough to limit the amount of albums you can see per page from 9 to 4. Brilliant.

The battery does not last for 30 hours, unless you're exclusively playing audio, with the backlight off. Anything else drastically reduces battery life, due to the complexity of the Operating System.

I give the iPod Classic a 2/5.
 
Jade Cambell said:
My brother is returning his iPod Classic, and he'll be using my 40GB iPod Photo instead. Our experience with the 80GB Silver Classic is that it's absolutely horrible, and that none of the software "upgrades" are worth anything at all.

Apple came to the end of how much they could improve on the click wheel iPod, so instead of letting it stay as is, or moving onto something new, they spurt out this horribly slow, full of unnecessary features, operating system. You can only see four albums per screen now, instead of nine, because Apple thought it would be a brilliant idea to let you see the album artwork next to each album, even though it's so small you can barely see it, but it's big enough to limit the amount of albums you can see per page from 9 to 4. Brilliant.

The battery does not last for 30 hours, unless you're exclusively playing audio, with the backlight off. Anything else drastically reduces battery life, due to the complexity of the Operating System.

I give the iPod Classic a 2/5.
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While I agree on the unnecessary aspects of the interface candy, I think he's got a bum unit. Even before the upgrade it wasn't *that* bad.

Either my viewing habits aren't that great, or the above goes for the battery as well. I watch a TV episode a day during my lunch break, and listen to music intermittently during the day. I typically recharge every 2-3 days (typically the latter).
 
I just got my 160gb classic today and am VERY impressed so far. It came with firmware v1.01 aleady on it and there are no delay or lag issues with mine. Even coverflow is fine with just over 45gb of music, it's actually smoother than my laptop! :D
Sorry for those having problems though, seems for once I got lucky with an electrical item and got a good one! lol
 
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